• Plan to jointly develop industrial-scale electrolyser project for green hydrogen ‎production
• Powered by Ørsted offshore wind, project will initially replace 20% of natural gas-‎based hydrogen used at bp’s Lingen refinery
• ‎Scale of project will support future reduction in green hydrogen costs
• bp’s first full-scale green hydrogen project, a significant step in strategic ‎development of new hydrogen business aligned with German and EU hydrogen ‎strategies

bp and Ørsted have today signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to work together to develop a ‎project for industrial-scale production of green hydrogen – a significant step in developing ‎bp’s hydrogen business. Green hydrogen is made by the electrolysis of water using ‎renewable power, producing zero emissions.

In their proposed Lingen Green Hydrogen project, the two firms intend to build an initial 50 ‎megawatt (MW) electrolyser and associated infrastructure at bp’s Lingen Refinery in north-‎west Germany. This will be powered by renewable energy generated by an Ørsted offshore ‎wind farm in the North Sea and the hydrogen produced will be used in the refinery.‎

Under their LOI, bp and Ørsted will now work together to further define the project, agree ‎definitive documents and plan to make a final investment decision (FID) early 2022, subject ‎to appropriate enabling policies being in place. The companies anticipate the project could be ‎operational by 2024.

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